Рет қаралды 53,609
Creator(s): Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation. 1935- (Most Recent)
Series: Motion Picture Films and Video Recordings, ca. 1936 - ca. 1985
Record Group 65: Records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1896 - 2008
Scope & Content:
PROMOTIONAL VIDEORECORDING: Demonstration in San Francisco against Un-American Activities Committee. Peaceful demonstration turns into riot. Communist war to destroy this nation was called "Operation Abolition." U.S. Communist Party wants House Un-American Activities Committee abolished. Hearings at San Francisco City Hall were disrupted by Student Committee for Civil Liberties and Communist Party members. Some hearing witnesses refuse to cooperate, students are disruptive. Police moved in to restore order only to be confronted by demonstrators. Some are ejected from courtroom, others arrested. Congressmen Francis E. Walter and Gordon H. Scherer, Communist party leader Archie Brown, Communist agent Frank Williams, and Communist Party members Merle Brodsky, Doug Waltner William Mandel and Vincent Holinam speak. Many people are injured and arrested during three days of hearings.
Contact(s): National Archives at College Park - Motion Pictures (RDSM), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road
College Park, MD 20740-6001
Phone: 301-837-3540, Fax: 301-837-3620, Email: mopix@nara.gov
National Archives Identifier: 5709865
Local Identifier: 65.14
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